 | Susan C. Stokes |
Susan C. Stokes, who has joined the Yale faculty as the John S. Saden Professor of Political Science, is a leading scholar of Latin American politics.
In her teaching and research, she has explored such topics as new democracies, neoliberalism, political parties, economic reform, vote-buying, and political patronage and clientelism -- focusing mainly on these subjects as they relate to Latin American countries.
Her most recent book, "Mandates and Democracy: Neoliberalism by Surprise in Latin America," won the Society for Comparative Research's 2002 Mattei Dogan Award for the Best Comparative Book of the Year and the American Political Science Association's 2003 Best Book Award in the Comparative Democratization Section. She also authored "Cultures in Conflict: Social Movements in the State of Peru" and edited and contributed to "Public Support for Economic Reforms in New Democracies." She is co-editor (with Adam Przeworski and Bernard Manin) of and contributor to "Democracy, Accountability and Representation." Stokes has also written several book chapters and numerous articles for professional journals.
Stokes comes to Yale from the University of Chicago, where she has taught since 1991 and served as graduate placement director and director of graduate studies. She has been executive director of the Chicago Center on Democracy since 1995. She previously taught at the University of Washington.
A graduate of Harvard University (Radcliffe College), Stokes earned M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford University. She has received numerous grants and fellowships for her academic work, including awards from the National Science Foundation, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and the American Philosophical Society.
Since 2001, Stokes has been an associate editor of the Cambridge University Press' Comparative Politics Book Series. She formerly served on the editorial board of Politics and Society. A member of the American Political Science Association and the Latin American Studies Association, she has been an invited lecturer and panelist at universities throughout the United States, in Latin and South America, and in Europe.
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Susan C. Stokes: John S. Saden Professor
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